I think nuclear has parallel to mainframes. Capital intensive, long lead time, expensive to operate/maintain/dispose and practically irrelevant in the day of distributed (computing) generation and storage.
It’s uncanny how the narrative rhymes: we have insanely capable portable computing devices at price points that are accessible to every person across the planet. Similarly, distributed generation (and storage) are already bringing electricity to people who have no real chance of being on the grid ever.
I see no way the economics working out for nuclear, except for niche uses.
I can even imagine the grid being something relegated for long range / high intensity applications (instead of household distribution) in a few hundred years
Consider Poland. 80% of its electricity production (as of this moment, almost midnight) is coal + gas (and it imports from Germany). Its generation mix results in 855 grams of CO₂ per kWh.
Consider Germany. 50% is coal + gas, 22% is wind + biomass. At 490 g/kWh.
Italy: 60% gas at 386 g/kWh.
Then compare them to France: 75% of the electricity comes from nuclear, at 47 g/kWh.
All of this despite abundant wind+solar capacity installed in Germany, France, Italy, and Poland.
There is a strong need to remove CO₂-intensive generators and replace them by something that does not send CO₂ into the air.
There is also a strong need to build up capacity to store energy.
No. You are likely and automatically extrapolating the attention to detail seen in the outcome into believing that it is a reflection of the attention , thought and method of their internal workings.
Which is a good indicator, but you can’t be sure of. Additionally you may imagine liking it but not enjoy it in life, even if true.
I captured a very similar thought in the footnotes of one of my comments here.
A numerical distillation of our aggregated thoughts will live on for potentially longer than any ordinary person could have hoped for (and maybe wanted).
I was not interested in maintaining an extensive homelab (so that I have separate storage and computing nodes), or buying into a new "software ecosystem" (I would consider buying e.g. a Synology/QNAP box if I did), so I ended up with vanilla Debian. Debian 13 (trixie) got released right on time, so I will be on the latest for a couple of years.
From what I tried (TrueNAS, OpenMV, Unraid), Unraid seemed to be the most appealing. TrueNAS was very unfriendly towards even the idea of opening a shell [1] and IIRC you couldn't even install debian packages out of the box. OpenMV had problems booting on my hardware, plus it is lagging behind mainline debian (the Debian 12 version of OpenMV got released around 2 months before Debian 13).
Unraid also had limitations regarding what you could run, but the community seemed to be the most robust. Also, it is the only one that stores its parity data externally. This gives you the most flexibility with disk configurations. Also, IIRC you can pull out a disk and the data on it would be readable, so migrating your data to something else would be relatively painless.
So, if I had to choose a NAS OS, it would probably be Unraid. The downside is that you need to buy a license. But hey! Black Friday to the rescue!
> TrueNAS was very unfriendly towards even the idea of opening a shell [1] and IIRC you couldn't even install debian packages out of the box.
It's meant to be an appliance, so it makes sense in that setting. That said, it does support hosting Docker images, so you don't really need much in the way of installing packages IME.
As long as we understand that the ‘want’ may originate beyond what individuals desire. e.g. the state may want agricultural production to be in-house for food security or have sufficient industrial capacity for national security
So these measures (public/investments) would be instituted to fulfill these ‘wants’
“but to deal with ambiguity and open-endedness, which is essential in R&D projects like Kagi Labs”…. Also based on the nonsense responses by the hiring manager, it sounds like one of 2 things
Either someone had a vision and is saying ‘Read my mind’
The alternative explanation seems to be, there is no vision, and the interviewee needs to define it.
In either scenario, the amount of communication, feedback, specificity, lack of respect for the power dynamics is appalling.
not sure if this is the right place to point out, I tried installing the windows store version but it seemed unavailable. I am wondering if the app is restricted to only specific regions.
Ahah, sorry bro, it was indeed available for Windows Phone a long time ago, but I don't think it can be installed on Windows now. And if you try to google "Monetal Windows Phone" you definitely will drop any idea to have it =) I support just Android and iOS versions currently.
I am certain a sanitizing layer has been added over chatgpt[1], which makes it all but useless. its responses are too deterministic now. Earlier, it used to happily regurgitate studies that did not exist and provide made up links. This was actually still very useful as key terms from the response could then be used to formulate searches that would bypass the garbage that typically turns up in google (or other engine's) front page.
Now any request to chatgpt start with a long-winded spiel about its cutoff date, another one about how not to trust it and ends with another one about how one might perform a google search. Another commenter here noted that it sounds most like a clickbait article generator.."Here are 5 extremely generic things you need....". It will continue to happily apologize and ignore any instructions that you provide it to the contrary
I have cancelled my subscription. I guess I just need to rant as it was the first tool that allowed me to move away from google. It was the first tool that allowed me to augment my capabilities. I guess, now its just as good[2].
P.S: Just before posting this rant, I just realized this comment is going to be used to train a future model. A part of my 'soul' is destined to live a rather long time as a part of a set weights in some model. The absurdity of that makes it extremely humorous, will AIs be able to self-amuse (chatgpt helped me find one word that means to make oneself laugh) ?
The "we have no moat" essay predicts your behavior very well. The community is now hungry, ready, and primed for a napster/pirate Bay of LLMs. I suspect it will be these sketchy versions that will push the hardware even further (Do you think most people filled their ipods with hundreds of gigabytes of music they purchased)
Well... I did. When I bought my iPad around 2006ish I had been collecting CDs for 20 years. 30Gb held something like 400-600 albums, about half my collection at the time.
Certainly! Its just that now I can objectively discern the difference in responses (lack of made up citations): while earlier it was merely a feeling of mine that chatGPT was getting 'worse' somehow. And I feel the loss of a fairly useful tool. Consequently I am voting with my wallet.
Thanks, I do intend to explore the API when I have time. For now, ChatGPT was the lowest 'effort' (just throw money at it) in terms of exploring/leveraging LLMs. I sincerely hope the API exposes the real gpt, I read a twitter thread about a new content-filtering attributes being introduced in the response
After working professionally for several months with the versioned models on a daily basis, I can say with absolutely certainty they’re being changed behind-the-scenes.
I had it writing 1000+ line web apps over 3 files (with a bit of help), experimenting with novel ideas that I had the conception but not the coding skill to write. Now it forgets the function it wrote in the previous response unless I mention it specifically, by name. It's definitely worse.
It’s uncanny how the narrative rhymes: we have insanely capable portable computing devices at price points that are accessible to every person across the planet. Similarly, distributed generation (and storage) are already bringing electricity to people who have no real chance of being on the grid ever.
I see no way the economics working out for nuclear, except for niche uses.
I can even imagine the grid being something relegated for long range / high intensity applications (instead of household distribution) in a few hundred years
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